Provides summaries, new theoretical frameworks and new findings on how chil dren learn to read. This book highlights how research has moved from descri ptions of changes during learning towards understanding the processes by wh ich learning takes place. View More...
One of the "Teach Yourself" series, this text on linguistics includes secti ons on speech disorders, politeness, the language of advertising and phonet ics. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. We all use euphemisms. We ask for directions to the "ladies room" or convey the news that someone has recently "passed away." In fact, euphemisms have existed throughout recorded history: they are used by preliterate peoples, and have probably been around since human language first developed. And th e same is true of offensive language, or "dysphemisms"--words used as weapo ns against others, or as release valves for anger and frustration. In this fas... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. As our millennium draws to a close, we find ourselves in the midst of great and rapid global changes with nations and political systems dissolving all around us and the world becoming one of shifting identities--of peoples un ified and divided by such distinctions as nationality, ethnicity, race, rel igion, and colonial status. The articulation and construction of these dist inctions, the very language of difference, is the subject of An Other Tongu e... View More...
Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different s econd language learning contexts. It begins with a detailed presentation of what has become a popular approach to identity in the social sciences (inc luding applied linguistics) today, one that is inspired in poststructuralis t thought and is associated with the work of authors such as Anthony Gidden s, Zygmunt Bauman, Chris Weedon, Judith Butler and Stuart Hall. It then examines how in early SLA research focussing on affective variables, identity was an issue, lurking in the wings but not coming to the surface. Movin... View More...
Historical Linguistics is concerned with the process of language change thr ough time. It investigates how and why the language of individuals, a socia l group or a whole 'speech community' develops in respect of its pronunciat ion, vocabulary and grammar. Dr Bynon regards language as essentially a dyn amic phenomenon, whose character can be at best only partly understood by a static, and necessarily idealized, synchronic approach. In Part I she esta blishes the theoretical framework by providing a systematic survey of the t hree main models of language development - the neogrammarian, structu... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This comprehensive introduction to advertising discourse examines the language of contemporary advertising, not as an isolated object, but in complex interaction with the texts around it, with music and pictures and, importantly, with the people who make and experience it. Clearly explaining relevant theories of linguistics and poetics, each chapter ends with a series of stimulating exercises, and theoretical discussion is accompanied by examples from... View More...
David Crystal's informative account of the rise of English as a global lang uage explores the history, current status and potential of English as the i nternational language of communication. This new edition of his classic wor k includes additional sections on the future of English as a world language , English on the Internet, and the possibility of an English "family" of la nguages. Footnotes, new tables, and a comprehensive bibliography reflect th e expanded scope of the revised edition. An internationally renowned schola r in the field of language and linguistics, David Crystal received a... View More...
Cover sub-title: A guided tour of the language by the presenter of BBC Radi o 4's English Now "A Penguin original"--Label from cover Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-284) and index pt. 1. The structure of English -- pt. 2. The uses of English -- pt. 3. The history of English. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overvi ew of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, comme ntaries and key readings - all in the same volume. The innovative and flexi ble 'two-dimensional' structure is built around four sections - introductio n, development, exploration and ex... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. We are presently confronted with a Babel of theories about language. As these proliferate, our need for an overview becomes acute. Linking linguistic and political man in Language And Politics, Dallmayr provides a perspective from which to assess the contemporary confusion of approaches. Among Anglo-American trends Dallmayr discusses logical empiricism, linguistic behaviorism, generative grammar, ordinary-language analysis, and speech-act theory; in t... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. How do social situations influence language use, discourse and conversation? This book is a monograph which presents a multidisciplinary theory of context and the way context influences language use and discourse. Unlike in earlier approaches, contexts are not defined as objective social 'variables', such as gender or age. Rather, they are constructs of the participants themselves, that is, 'subjective definitions of the communicative situation' that ... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Students often struggle to understand linguistic concepts through examples of language data provided in class or in texts. Presented with ambiguous information, students frequently respond that they don't 'get it'. The solution is to find an example of humour that relies on the targeted ambiguity. Once they laugh at the joke, they have tacitly understood the concept, and then it is only a matter of explaining why they found it funny. Utilizing cartoon... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in developmental psychology, anthropology and sociology, to explore the processes behind child language acquisition to the preschool period. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. There are three fundamental issues in the field of screen translation, name ly, the relationship between verbal output and pictures and soundtrack, bet ween a foreign language/culture and the target language/culture, and finall y between the spoken code and the written one. All three issues are raised and discussed by contributors to this special issue of The Translator. The topics covered include the following: the use of multimodal transcription for... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. CDS is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for analysing dynamically evolving aspects of language in a broa d range of socio-political and institutional contexts. This volume is a cut ting edge, interdisciplinary account of these theoretical and empirical dev elopments. It presents an up-to-date survey of Critical Discourse Studies ( CDS), covering both the theoretical landscape and the analytical territorie ... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Twelve distinguished translators share their thoughts on the art and practice of literary translation in this lively series of interviews." View More...
